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New comment by sdwr in "SpaceX S-1"

sdwr — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:25:32 +0000

They have different personalities. I can only imagine Altman wants to stay on top of the chaos, and believes he will come out ahead whatever happens, while Dario is trying to stay realistic and mitigate worst-case scenarios.

New comment by sdwr in "The Third Hard Problem"

sdwr — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:49:49 +0000

The map is not the territory!

New comment by sdwr in "Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs"

sdwr — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:46:30 +0000

There's soft guardrails for "reputable" content. A publishing house has to buy it, stores have to agree to distribute it, and if people are upset they can raise a stink and get the book pulled.

Technically, people can write whatever they want, but practically you can't walk into a bookstore and read whatever you want.

New comment by sdwr in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

sdwr — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:28:17 +0000

Same as it ever was

New comment by sdwr in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

sdwr — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:51:25 +0000

And the EU wants to insulate itself from Russia with friendly, ideologically-compatible countries. Can't put a price tag on safety

New comment by sdwr in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

sdwr — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:15:55 +0000

Emergency medicine is the coding of medicine. Fast feedback loop, requires broad rather than deep judgement, concrete next steps.

The AI coding improvement should be partially transferrable to other disciplines without recreating the training environment that made it possible in the first place. The model itself has learned what correct solutions "feel like", and the training process and meta-knowledge must have improved a huge amount.

New comment by sdwr in "Withnail's Coat and I"

sdwr — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:16:58 +0000

Yeah, fractal means you see the same structure, or an equally complex structure, at the smaller scale. This is just details, there's no sustained complexity

New comment by sdwr in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

sdwr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:41:24 +0000

So poor people and historical people are in the same bucket as dogs, got it.

How lucky we are to be the only generation in history capable of thinking and reflecting!

New comment by sdwr in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

sdwr — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:41:49 +0000

Economy of scale, Lego can invest the billions(?) in machines and molds that don't leave connection points (?), partially by reusing pieces between sets.

New comment by sdwr in "Expansion Artifacts"

sdwr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:49:33 +0000

This is a peak midwit, popsci, plausible-sounding but foundationally-bereft article.

New comment by sdwr in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

sdwr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:20:04 +0000

Yeah it's fascinating to have an alternate source for intelligence, feels like a mental Rosetta Stone

New comment by sdwr in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

sdwr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:26:29 +0000

Recklessness is based on effort, likelihood, and consequence. If you live in a small town, you might not lock your front door. No matter where you live, you probably don't lock your second floor windows.

New comment by sdwr in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

sdwr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:54:00 +0000

Is it healthy? Maybe every company is a profit-maximizer wearing a skin suit, and people support their siblings exactly twice as much as their cousins.

When you slice down to the game-theory-optimal bone, you are, in some sense, cutting off their wiggle room to do anything else

New comment by sdwr in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

sdwr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:13:35 +0000

Right, because you see the situation so much better than them ;)

New comment by sdwr in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

sdwr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:20:21 +0000

Didn't Google give up on chromeOS? For all their faults, at least Microsoft has a desktop os

New comment by sdwr in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

sdwr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:29:37 +0000

What's cool is that they aren't adjusting the temperature of the model live, or predicting/labeling any of the fork/lock points.

New comment by sdwr in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

sdwr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:13:39 +0000

Get into the account, change the phone number, and start charging the cards on file. Or look through iCloud data for passwords/contacts

New comment by sdwr in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

sdwr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:24:08 +0000

"Requiring an account" means leaning in the Apple/Disney direction - upselling, walled gardens and milking captive customers. Dropping the account requirement is a symbolic (and practical!) step in the other direction, towards using the product as a tool.

New comment by sdwr in "Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware"

sdwr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:11:32 +0000

Lockdown mode could be life or death for some users. Adding toggles and partial states increases complexity and risk.

New comment by sdwr in "Anthropic Subprocessor Changes"

sdwr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:01:32 +0000

The more they share, the easier it is to exploit the system.